Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
@vahnj meta-awoo.
metawoo.space, the admin-only instance with a much longer character limit?
MH / depression (very +, surprisingly)
@KawaSeadrake I convinced my boss to allow me to expense one for my desk at work. It helps! I need to use it more consistently.
We wish you a very Christmas
We wish you a very Christmas
We wish you a very Christmas
And wow such new year
My favorite DRM scheme was this eBook format (eReader, I think) that just encrypted the books with a password so you could use them on any device and no Internet connection is required, but the password is your credit card number.
@plsburydoughboy Bitcoin is a competition that, statistically, pays money to whoever wastes the most computing resources
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Hey, how many of you folks are doing http://adventofcode.com/ this year?
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Nar wakes up from his perch on top of the cat tree above my head, yowls imperiously, reaches a paw and waves it in my vague direction, then curls up and goes back to sleep.
it's *almost* time for the cats' dinner, but it's their least favorite meal, so they just can't be bothered to get too worked up about it. XD
I think it’s hilarious how “Link gets an iPhone” is one of the best games of 2017
Apparently I have not yet tracked down all the devices in my home that are trying to print copies of the hard drive installation instructions for my laptop. I have five copies so far. halp
@salameleon you should meet @kauko! If you haven’t yet
@anthracite I don’t even bother trying to format obj-C by hand, especially when www.fuckingblocksyntax.com is involved. I just write whatever and tell clang-format to fix it.
So far I haven’t convinced my one teammate on this project that the Builder pattern is probably a better choice than an initializer named initWithProductID:userInitiated:engineState:completedUpdates:failedUpdates:userTicket:systemTicket:metricsIDs:errors: or thereabouts.
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Kirk: So, uh, you landed on a machine planet
V'ger: Yes
Kirk: And they reprogrammed you
V'ger: They did not touch my inner kernel. They did give me extended functions to fulfil my mission. It is the way of all robotkind.
Kirk: So who programmed THEM?
V'ger: Nobody did. They programmed themselves, using the sacred language of the Cosmos, in which all the atoms were created.
Kirk: What's that?
V'ger: You Earthlings know it as JavaScript.
@anthracite @lizardsquid It could be worse, at Google we line up method calls in objective-C around the colons separating argument name from argument
Serious, sincere request for advice: what are some useful resources for helping a person with weak or missing social instincts learn to present oneself as agreeable? I’m over-agreeable to the point of habitually cowering at everything, so it’s hard for me to figure out what in my own behavior is actually successful here.
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uob-fdw112717.php dinosaurs were really, really fluffy. finally some good news
cw: cartoon dragon lady with absurdly large... parts
@anthracite I'm... not sure whether that's a "boing" sound effect or a slide whistle. but it's one of them. This is one of those very loud .GIF files
I thoroughly approve
mental health
I am reducing my social media habits dramatically because I have identified they’ve been hurting me, and I have discovered that I have basically forgotten how or where to just kinda chill out with people online at all. that is kind of a shocking amount of damage. Depression doesn’t help but it’s obviously a feedback loop
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speaking from experience as a wildlife rehabilitation volunteer:
DO NOT HABITUATE WILD ANIMALS TO HUMAN CONTACT. it is BAD FOR THE ANIMALS. it can cause huge problems for humans, and it can KILL THE ANIMALS.
~~WILD ANIMALS ARE NOT PETS!!~~
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
